NFTs are easy to understand if you examine their core utility.  Unfortunately, there are thousands of NFT promoters spending millions of dollars to make sure you never look at that.This episode is a departure from our standard format, but it's an important…

Runaway success and underfunding have led to growing pains for the preprint server

A guest post from Tony Bowden about his efforts to build an open source dataset
of world leaders inside of Wikidata, the structured-data version of Wikipedia.

Catherine Martin, Ireland’s minister of tourism, culture, arts, Gaeltacht, sport and media, on January 6 initiated an online consultation aimed at soliciting opinions regarding the creation of a basic income plan for a number of the country’s artists. The…

May I invite you to a fun thread about a delightful quirk of relativity theory? Starting with a simple fact about rotations, I’ll hope to give you some intuition about something that’s considered wildly counterintuitive: velocity addition. Intrigued? Buckle…

A lesser-known art form allowed British aristocracy to circumvent rules of propriety, with in-jokes and suggestive messages hidden in seemingly innocent images, writes Holly Williams.

I spent 20 years slaving away at companies doing development, maintenance, troubleshooting, architecture, management, and whatever else needed doing. For all those years I was a permanent hire, wor…

Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future. Its failure to achieve adoption to date is because systems built…

Legendary games, immersive interactive entertainment and publishing expertise accelerate growth in Microsoft’s Gaming business across mobile, PC, console and cloud. REDMOND, Wash. and Santa Monica, Calif. – Jan. 18, 2022 – With three billion people actively…

PostgreSQL query planner is full of surprises, so a common-sense approach to writing performant queries is sometimes misleading. In this blog post, I'll describe examples of optimizing seemingly obvious queries with the help of EXPLAIN ANALYZE and Postgres…

Don't Just Say "Hello" in Chat.

Through the development of Syntorial I've formed some pretty strong opinions when it comes to synthesis. So I figured I'd share them with the world in the

You think this post is going to be about coding, but it’s really about chess and realizing that you can build wonderful special-purpose machines in your head over time. When I was first learn…

For such a familiar celestial body, the sun is still very mysterious—but we’re getting closer to it than ever before.

Use Matrix as a backend for local-first applications with the Matrix-CRDT Yjs provider. - YousefED/Matrix-CRDT

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